Shoe



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Application July 30, 1932. Serial No. 626,807

1 Claim.

This invention relates, generally, to shoes and has particular referenceto a type kof slipper which is occasionally worn and usually referred toas a bed-room or house slipper.

Regardless of the apparent comfort with which shoes may be worm-manyhours of constant wear, as for example, during business hours and inwalking on the usual hard pavements, they will cause varying footailments.

Temporary replacing or changing the shoes, with bed-room or houseslippers, for however brief a period, is therefore highly beneficial tothe feet and provides a very pleasant reaction to the wearer.

The principal diiculty heretofore with slippers of this type is thattheir counters collapse or become sufficiently distorted, as whenplacing them upon the feet or removing them, as to impair theirserviceability. Although it is highly desirable to place bed-room orhouse slippers upon the feet without the aid of the hands, thisprocedure being quite dimcult where their lcounters have been crushed orotherwise mutilated, then, too, since the purpose of a slipper of thisnature is to afford comfort and ease to the feet of the wearer, thesedesired objects may not be had unless the slippers are well-fitting.

To overcome the above and other disadvantages incidental to all types ofslippers of this nature with which we are familiar, we provide a slipperwith its counter constructed in such a novel manner as to render itflexible at all times.

Although the counter may be stepped on or otherwise temporarily gottenout of shape, it will immediately return to its original contour andretain its natural shape and remain in its wellfitting form. y

It is one of the principal objects of our invention therefore to providean extremely ilex- Vible and resilient counter which is formed andmounted in such a novel manner as to always maintain its predeterminedand normallyerect position regardless of the abuse to which the counteris subjected. I

A further object of the invention is to provide a counter in this typeof shoe which will permit the ready insertion of the foot into the shoewhile it is resting on the oor, the assurance of itssnugly fitting thefoot while being worn, and which will allow the withdrawal of the foottherefrom with 4the least amountof eifort.

Another object of the present invention resides in an extremely simpleand highly effective counter associated with shoes of this type whichdescription and the drawing, in which is illusfr trated an embodiment ofthe device-for carrying, out the invention.

On the drawing, in which the same reference characters refer to the sameparts throughout,

and in which is disclosed the preferred embodiment:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a bed-room or house slipper constructedin accordance with our invention;

f Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view on a 70 slightly enlargedscale taken through the heel portion thereof;

Figure 3 is a detail sectional view on a still further enlarged scale,illustrating the upper edge ofthe counter, and

Figure 4 is a face View of a pair of the layers, shown-in superimposedposition of the elements comprising the counter.

This invention, in the form or embodiment shown in the drawing andbrieiiy described, com-- prises a bed-room or house slipper indicatedgenerally as at 10, having a toe portion 11 and a heel portion orcounter shown at l2.

With particular reference to Figures 2, 3l and 4 in which areillustrated in detail the construction of our novel counter, it will benoted that we employ an inner and outer layer of leather shown at 13 and14 which are placed upon either side of a sheet of rubber or otheryieldable material indicated at 15. As will be noted by .referring toFigure 4, the sheet of rubber 15 is slightly smaller than the adjacentlayers 13 and 14, comprising the counter l2. 'Ihe lower edge 16 of thesuperimposed layers of leather and rubber are cut in a substantiallystraight line,

rear portion of the heel or counter, whereas the reduced or tapered ends19'will form the side portions of the counter 12.

The upper edges of each of the layers of leather 13 and 14 are bent backupon themselves as at 20, extended downwardly for a relatively short Idistance and stitched together as shown at 21. The extreme edges 1'1form an abutment or'limit for the v upper edge 18 of rubber strip l5, asis clearly indicated in Figure 3. These several layers or thicknesses ofleather and rubber may be stitched together as diagrammatieallyindicated in Figure 4, as at 24, or they may be stitched or naileddirectly to the adjacent portion of the heel in any manner well known inthis art.

The counter is provided with an inwardly bent portion or leg 23 which ispreferably covered by the inner sole 24. The space between the upper`surface of the heel and the lower surface of the inner sole 24 may belled with any suitable packing material 25, thereby providing a wellrounded form to that portion of the heel.

It will now b'e appreciated that a bed-room or house slipper formed inaccordance with our invention, due to its well fitting and yeldablecounter, will be extremely comfortable in service and will not becomemutilated' when accidentally stepped upon, since the yeldable nature ofthe rubber will immediately return the counter to its normal contour andposition.

The invention, however,l is not intended to be restricted to theparticular construction nor to the particular applications of suchconstruction, herein shown and described, as the same may be modied invarious particulars or be applied in many varied relations withoutdeparting from the spirit and scope of the invention, the practicalembodiment herein illustrated and described attempting merely to showone of the various forms and modifications in which the invention mightbe embodied.

What we claim is:

In a shoe of the type which is adapted to be readily placed upon thefoot and easily removed therefrom, having a yeldable counter portioncomprising a pair of spaced coverings of leather having backwardly andinwardly bent portions, stitches extending through the said bentportions, and a rubber counter completely lling said space formedbetween the pair of leather coverings, said counter portion being ofuniform thickness.

MICHAEL COLAVITO. JOHN S. MERENNA.

